It may be one of the last of its ICE kind, but cars like the Audi RS3 Sportback represent the summit of a century’s evolution – and are a convincing reminder as to how far EVs still need to evo...
can barely match the stats of a mid-range EV. Instead of out-and-out speed, the last days of combustion are becoming a celebration of the sound and fury of burning hydrocarbons in the most elaborate ways possible. ’s high-performance ‘RS’ designation has jumped species from petrol-power to EV, losing none of the accelerative impulse but almost all its analogue savagery in the process.
It is the last days of Rome for the traditionally fuelled car; powertrain engineers unable or unwilling to switch to battery-based propulsion have gone all out in seeing what they can do. RS is this, the RS3, available as both a saloon and a compact ‘Sportback’ estate car. Relentless upscaling means the RS3 isn’t really ‘small’ – it’s simply not ‘big’ by the standards ushered in by the SUV era. It still carries plenty of luggage, though.
The headline figures here are more than respectable – a sub-four-second sprint to 62mph, around 400PS and 500Nm of torque . As naysayers point out, EVs might be able to perform similar feats, but they can’t do so again and again and again like a traditional internal combustion engine. Batteries run too hot. They get depleted. Sadly, this argument is almost entirely irrelevant in day-to-day usage, given the increasingly limited opportunities to deploy extreme performance.
It might not beat an EV off the line, but the RS3 still excels over its successors in its handling and general dynamic feel.
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